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EEDAR predicts Feb NPD sales decline, Wii sales increase

Joystiq - March 16, 2008

Submitted by FoxHoundADAM (95) at 2:03PM PST on March 16, 2009

The industry analysts at Electronic Entertainment Design and Research recently cast their assortment of oracle bones over some spreadsheets in an attempt to foretell NPD sales figures for the month of February. They foresee a year-on-year decline for Spring 2009 sales as a whole. They predict year-on-year February sales for the PSP, DS and PS3 to fall over 10 percent. However, the firm does predict an 18 percent increase for the 360, and a 68 percent jump for the Wii.
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Lich King tops February US PC sales

GamesIndustry - March 13, 2009

Submitted by soupsoup (7) at 7:27PM PST on March 14, 2009

Wrath of the Lich King has topped the US PC software sales chart for February, according to data provided by NPD. The Sims 2 expansion Double Deluxe was the second best seller of the month, with Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II becoming the third, having only been on release for the last week of February. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest took fourth place, followed by FEAR 2, which also debuted that month, in fifth place. Top 20 at the link.
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EA predicts longer console cycle, more price cuts

Joystiq - March 13, 2009

Submitted by oznerol (87) at 6:56AM PST on March 13, 2009

According to EA CFO Eric Brown, this console generation still has many years ahead of it and will be longer than console cycles of the past. Elements found in this generation, such as digital distribution channels, still have high potential for growth, Brown said at a Wedbush Morgan Securities conference. We've also ostensibly hit a tech ceiling with this gen, as games consoles are capable of full HD resolution at 60fps, which means there's little need to upgrade to new hardware.
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AMD ships 50 million GPUs for the Wii

Popzara - March 11, 2009

Submitted by felipedmoreira (74) at 5:10PM PST on March 11, 2009

AMD announced that the 50 millionth ATI 'Hollywood' graphics processor for the Wii(TM) game console from Nintendo shipped today. With 50 million units delivered, the ATI graphics processor code-named 'Hollywood' becomes the most successful AMD game console chip to date in terms of unit sales.
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Famitsu Japan Sales Chart

Famitsu - March 11, 2009

Submitted by PhilHarrision (714) at 8:21AM PST on March 11, 2009

Console sales to Mar 8 week: DS/DSi 45K sold PSP 61K sold Wii 20K sold X360 14K sold PS3 40K sold
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Online Gaming Jumps in 2009

kotaku - March 10, 2009

Submitted by felipedmoreira (74) at 12:49PM PST on March 10, 2009

Although PC online gaming has dipped slightly, a recent survey by the NPD Group shows that online gaming as a whole has increased from 19 to 25 percent this year. The console leader for online gaming is, not surprisingly, the Xbox 360 which dominates the survey with 50 percent. I was more than a little surprised to see that the survey shows that Nintendo's Wii, and not the Playstation 3, is in second place with an amazing 29 percent. The PS3 rounds out the group in third place.
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Amazon enters pre-owned games market

GamesIndustry - March 5, 2009

Submitted by dryden (247) at 5:27PM PST on March 5, 2009

Online retailer Amazon has entered the pre-owned videogames market, with the beta launch of a new service. Users send Amazon their games, and in return are issued a gift card for a pre-arranged amount. The retailer already allows users to sell their own games through the site, but this is the first time Amazon has taken a more active role.
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Activision Seeks Recession-Fueled Bargains

kotaku - March 4, 2008

Submitted by felipedmoreira (74) at 1:33PM PST on March 4, 2009

What does a company like Activision Blizzard do when sitting on $3 billion in cash with no debt while many gaming companies flounder in the face of an economic recession? They go shopping. Activision Blizzard's top publishing executive Mike Griffith told Bloomberg that the current economic climate is perfect for creating acquisition possibilities.
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British Sales Charts: Killzone tops

kotaku - March 3, 2009

Submitted by felipedmoreira (74) at 2:54PM PST on March 3, 2009

Two big first-party titles faced off last week in Britain: Killzone 2 and Halo Wars. Only one of them could come out victorious, and it wasn't going to be Halo Wars. Instead, it was Killzone 2 taking the #1 spot, in the process becoming Britain's second-fastest-selling PS3 game of all time (behind GT5 Prologue).
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Rumor:Best Buy Reexamining Used Game Sales

kotaku - January 1, 2009

Submitted by felipedmoreira (74) at 2:43PM PST on March 3, 2009

They've dabbled in used video games buy backs and sales before, but we're hearing that Best Buy is once more rolling out a test program to a number of their stories this month. Just a day after word of Toys R Us testing out used game sales, a source tells us that a used game trade program could be installed in some Best Buy stories within the month.
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